On April 30, 2019, off-duty Coweta County Deputy Edmond Irvin, 25, was shot and killed inside a home on Snowfall Terrace in Palmetto, Georgia. Irvin, who was months away from becoming a father, had been trying to intervene in a family dispute involving his 17-year-old cousin, Danny Long. After an initial physical altercation, Irvin—unarmed—returned to Long’s room with a jacket in an attempt to reconcile. A second fight followed and Long retrieved a handgun from his dresser and fired three shots; family members heard Long shout an expletive-laden statement just before the shooting. Irvin died at the scene.

Long fled the house amid threats toward Irvin’s pregnant fiancée and others in the home. A large police search ended about three miles from the residence, where Long surrendered and was arrested, later charged with murder and terroristic threats. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation handled the inquiry and the case went to the Coweta County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution. Did anyone in the area know Edmond or his family and recall how the events that night unfolded?